Egle Oddo

Board member |
Years as member:
2015, 2016, 2019

About

MY FINGERPRINT

My work consists in discovering and telling stories. Always it is fragments that I collect from situations apart and lives afar, I knead them, blow on them, and that's when they sing together as a quire. My senses are voracious. I dig away the floor in hidden archives, sometime recovering the recipe of meals eaten by medieval poets, and gorging like an ant bear. I interbreed digital textures with analogue film supports, if I need photography. As sculptor, I forge the mechanism for an army of plant-seeds' catapults. My environmental-art pieces lately consist of collective telepathic exercises, which seems a consistent way to prevent more trash in the ecosystem.

The gathering of selected trashes is itself a great part of my work. I collage, or melt, or write, merging together the fragments. And when it appears it is done.

MY BIO

As visual artist, my work focuses on linear and non-linear narration as an art form. Interested in operational realism, the presentation of the functional sphere in an aesthetic arrangement, and its inter-relations, I combine photography, moving image, installation, sculpture, environmental art, and experimental live art.

My work has been shown at international biennials, Museums and relevant institutions, as well as cutting edge and independent alternative spaces and events.

Since 2005 I live and work in Helsinki, where I founded Namastic Art Collective, a non profit organization dealing with exhibitions, workshops and events.

Latest posts by Egle Oddo:

In October 2017 the Collective Intelligence group was invited to spend one month in Palermo and work together with Dimora Oz, an artists-run association focusing on relational art and place-making processes. This initial choice led to a chain of very fruitful events and activities. With this text...

Interview with Samuli Kemppi, playing live Friday 22.9 at 00:00 outdoors nearby Oranssi Building. How do you see the evolution of techno in recent years? There is wide variety of techno, so the best way is to examine the evolution of techno from your own personal perspective. Of course as a...

Interview with Kalle Kuisma, one of the founders of Vadelma ry and Korppi Radio. Kprppiradio will stream our Assembly live every day and publish the recorded sessions online: http://korppiradio.net What was the motivation behind Korppiradio? How did Korppiradiobegin? Where does Korppiradio go in...

Interview with Random Doctors, VJing live Friday 22.9 at 22:00, outside nearby Oranssi Building. Your vj-ing is present in mainstream events like Flow as well as inindependent contemporary art events. You were even vj-ing at theindependent event 'Irresistible District' organised by artists for...